FLATE would like to welcome all educators to an exciting 2023-2024 academic year and thank each of you for your dedication to helping students to succeed.
FLATE supports Career and Technical Education in the state of Florida and provides resources with a wide range of information, from degree options to career education and planning, fun lesson plans focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, as well as modules for advanced technological education.
We invite you to take advantage of FLATE resources and opportunities for professional development and classroom support as well as tools to increase your students’ awareness and interest in the field of manufacturing and all the careers it represents.
To learn about FLATE education Resources visit
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Start Planning your Manufacturing Month
Student Event Now!
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Since 2012, Manufacturing Day/Month has grown across the nation with the goal of inspiring the future manufacturing workforce. Now celebrated all year long, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center (FLATE), FloridaMakes and the Regional Manufacturers Associations (RMAs) provide support to help you plan student tours and other events to showcase our manufacturing industry. Plan your event on Manufacturing Day, the 1st Friday in October, or any other day to introduce students to manufacturing and its many great careers.
You can participate in facility tours, manufacturing roundtables and other special events in October and all year with Florida's students! Manufacturers and Educators interested in offering student tours or planning a custom event, reach out to your Regional Manufacturing Association (RMA). Find the contact information for your county as well as promotional materials including posters, logos and FLATE's Best Practice Guide for Industry Tours at http://madeinflorida.org/manufacturing-day.
If you're new to celebrating Manufacturing Month or just want some tips on how to make your event more successful, join us at our Kick-Off Webinar on August 31st! Click below to register.
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FACTE Annual Conference: Continuous Excellence Supporting CTE Professional Development |
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Every year FLATE partners with the Florida Association for Career and Technical Education (FACTE), the Florida Association for Industrial and Technical Educators (FAITE), and the Florida Career Pathways Network (FCPN), to support and provide top-quality professional learning opportunities, educational resources, and share best practices for career and technical (CTE) educators in Florida.
The 57th FACTE annual conference and trade show, held July 17-19, in Orlando, Florida, hosted 600+ participants, 40 vendors, and more than 130 parallel sessions representing all areas of CTE education. FLATE and our partners offered seven well-attended conference sessions over the 3-day conference.
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Dr. Marilyn Barger Recognized at
MSSC 25th Anniversary Commemoration
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In 1998, the federal National Skill Standards Board endorsed the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council as the “Voluntary Partnership” of industry, labor and education responsible for defining the industry-wide skill standards for front-line production workers.
Now commemorating 25 years of upskilling America’s workforce, MSSC has grown far beyond initial expectations into a national institution of over 2000 Authorized Assessment Centers and 3300+ Authorized Instructors. It is through collaborative efforts with our many strategic partners that thousands of individuals across the county have been given the necessary skills and credentials to secure a path for in-demand and lucrative careers.
Dr. Marilyn Barger was recognized at the 25th Anniversary Commemoration on August 8, 2023, for her impact on the organization’s growth.
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FLATE & Florida Colleges Attend 2023 HI-TEC Conference |
HI-TEC is a national conference on advanced technological education where secondary and postsecondary educators, counselors, industry professionals, trade organizations, and technicians can update their knowledge and skills. We had a big group of Florida college representatives attend the conference this year, taking advantage of the opportunity to network with others teaching and researching advanced technology education.
Charged with preparing America’s skilled technical workforce, the event focuses on the preparation needed by the existing and future workforce in the high-tech sectors that drive our nation’s economy. FLATE had an exhibit booth and gave multiple presentations including:
- The Hidden Innovation Infrastructure: The Role of Economic Development in Technician Education in the Changing Future of Work
- Identifying Needed Math Competencies: Where We are Now and Finding a Pathway Forward
- Moving to the “EDGE”: Edge Computing Enters Manufacturing Education
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FLATE PLC Educator Workshop |
Sam Ajlani led the two-day PLC Educator Workshop at the College of Central Florida on August 3-4 for community college faculty.
Topics included:
- Overview of Allen-Bradley 500 PLC Software and Hardware
- Basic Relay Logic, Programming with Bit Logic
- Exercises with Timing, Counter, and Registers
- Basic TAG Development, Basic Relay Programming with Tags Creation of Internal Bits
The group will continue to have ongoing support as they practice their new PLC skills and share them with their students. They will meet monthly through virtual sessions from September to December, with another in-person session if needed.
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2023 Fall ET Forum Registration Open Now |
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ATE Office Hours - Community Colleges & Economic Development Research
Wednesday August 16 - 2pm EST
Join Dr. Marilyn Barger to discuss the Hidden Innovation Infrastructure (HII), a 4-year ATE Targeted Research Project using a multifaceted approach to examine the economic development role of NSF ATE and community college technician education programs.
ATE Central and the HII team will share the project's high-level research outcomes related to how ATE grantees define their impacts on regional economies. Participants will also learn strategies that can help them make use of local and regional economic impacts to build and support their own community networks. We look forward to seeing you online!
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2023 MakeMore Manufacturing Summit
Orlando, FL - October 25-26, 2023
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The MakeMore Manufacturing Summit is an annual thought-leadership event that brings together the manufacturing ecosystem in order to help strengthen Florida's manufacturing sector, including identifying and solving key issues.
Who should attend? Organizations that have a stake in the Florida manufacturing sector; Florida manufacturers; Individuals who are considered manufacturing thought leaders; Technical educators; Elected representatives.
Registration includes breakfast and lunch where several individuals and businesses from across Florida will be recognized!
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2023 Manufacturing and Engineering Career Fair
August 16, 2023 - USF
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The 2023 Manufacturing and Engineering Career Fair will be hosted on August 16, 2023, from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM at the University of South Florida, Tampa.
This event is organized by the USF East Tampa Manufacturing Certificate program, which is designed to introduce and educate East Tampa residents about manufacturing technology, with the ultimate goal of preparing them for careers in the manufacturing industry.
Manufacturers in the Tampa Bay Metropolitan area are invited to showcase their companies, connect with local talent and contribute to the growth and advancement of the manufacturing industry in Florida. For more information or if interested in sponsorship opportunities, you can reach out to Saad Amjad at amjadm@usf.edu.
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September 27-29, 2023 - Hamm Institute for American Energy, Oklahoma City, OK.
The conference brings together educational professionals and industrial experts in mechatronics, robotics, and other electromechanical fields.
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Manufacturing Institute's Workforce Summit
Sourcing Solutions: Skills, People & Processes
Atlanta, GA - October 16-18, 2023
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The Workforce Summit is a one-of-a-kind gathering of the brightest minds, innovative leaders and industry experts who are passionate about shaping the future of manufacturing. This year, the program is designed to address the challenges and opportunities in sourcing solutions for skills, people and processes, focusing on attraction and retention strategies, training and skills development, workforce research and insights, and much more! |
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8th Annual 5K for Manufacturing Education
Safety Harbor, FL - October 21, 2023
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As manufacturing technology advances, finding talent to sustain these improvements becomes more challenging. To address this need, we invite you to join us for the 8th annual 5K for Manufacturing Education. This year’s Halloween-themed event “Ghouls for Tools” encourages entrants in costume and promises to be a lot of fun! Our past 7 events have yielded over $167,000 for manufacturing career seekers!
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The 2023 ATE Conference will be held on October 25-27 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. The conference will bring together more than 850 NSF ATE grantees and their project partners to focus on the critical issues related to advanced technological education. Key people working on ATE projects across the country will participate in the event. Conference participants represent community colleges, business and industry, secondary school systems, and four-year colleges covering projects in a wide variety of areas, such as information technology, engineering technology, micro- and nanotechnologies, chemical technology, biotechnology, and others. |
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Publish Undergraduate Research in
The Journal of Advanced Technological Education (J ATE)
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The Journal of Advanced Technological Education (J ATE) is embarking on a new pilot program: J ATE Undergraduate Research Experience (J ATE URE). The program will bring together community college and technical education faculty-student teams to write and submit a publication based on their research and create curricular materials that will support future students in doing the same. Teams will be supported with a stipend, training, monthly online meetings, and both peer and professional feedback and support of their publication preparation. Faculty and student involvement will be over 11 months (September 2023 - July 2024).
Each J ATE URE Team will be composed of:
One Faculty member who does undergraduate research with community college or technical education students plus 1-3 Community College student research team members who would like to write an article on their research for J ATE.
Participants must be US Citizens or Permanent Residents and students must be currently enrolled in a community college in the US or a US territory.
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ATMAE Student Challenge
Win up to $500 per Team Member
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The Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) invites all undergraduate students to submit a creative, inspirational video of 1 to 3 minutes that will inspire employers to seek/hire graduates of and current students enrolled in ATMAE-accredited programs. Students can submit individually or as a team of up to 4 students and they do not have to be an ATMAE student member to participate! Submission deadline: October 15th.
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St. Petersburg College Instructor Featured in Podcast |
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Brian Bell, PhD, Mechanical Engineer turned Educator was invited to the HTM on the Line Podcast with Bryant Hawkins Sr. on August 1, 2023. Listen to his story of teaching HTM and mechanics, including his unique approach that combines his love for technology and hands-on learning. |
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Robot caterpillar for Narrow Spaces |
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have shown that a caterpillar-like soft robot can move forward, backward and dip under narrow spaces. The caterpillar-bot's movement is driven by a novel pattern of silver nanowires that use heat to control the way the robot bends, allowing users to steer the robot in either direction.
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New Era of Prosthetics: Self-healing Electronic Skin |
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Human skin is amazing. It senses temperature, pressure and texture. It's able to stretch and spring back, time and again. And it provides a barrier between the body and bad things in the world — bacteria, viruses, toxins, ultraviolet radiation and more. Engineers are, accordingly, keen to create synthetic skin. They imagine robots and prosthetic limbs that have skinlike qualities — not the least of which is skin's remarkable ability to heal. "We've achieved what we believe to be the first demonstration of a multilayer, thin-film sensor that automatically realigns during healing," said Chris Cooper at Stanford University who, along with researcher Sam Root, is co-author of U.S. National Science Foundation-supported study in Science announcing the advance.
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FLATE 2022-23 Webinar Series - Watch on Demand |
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Developing Local Articulations to Increase Enrollment in College Programs
- How to Create Work-based Learning Opportunities
- Recruiting Strategies Best Practices
- Robots for AI and Industry 4.0 Training and Demo
- Creating Videos using Classroom Projects and Student Success Stories
- How to Increase Student Diversity in ET Programs
- How to Develop ET Dual Enrollment or Early College Programs
- Cybersecurity for Manufacturing Series (4-part)
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FLATE's Manufacturing Matters Dashboard
A tool highlighting manufacturing education, careers, industry, and their impact on Florida's economy.
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Florida Department of Education Resources |
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With Career, Technical and Adult Education (CTAE), you can train for a better career quickly and affordably. |
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Apprenticeship programs are a proven training method benefiting job seekers and businesses. |
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